Well, I've heard of people being fairly skeptical about coyotes having that much of an impact on the deer population, but I've always thought they would have more of an impact than hunters would. Onto the story... Apparently locally here in upstate, NY the DEC found a coyote den and set up a camera for a few months. Over the course of that time there were several coyote pups living in the den. Apparently during there first few months the parent(s) brought back 27 fawns to the den for them, 27!! Now if that doesn't have a fairly hefty impact on an areas deer population I don't know what does.

That doesn't hold a candle to the 6 or 7 deer that get taken each year in the 100 acres I hunt on. Looks like its time to do some house-cleaning on coyotes in the area.

Tim